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Another one of these. I wasn’t particularly happy about already existing matchmaker overhaul mods (I wanted something more... magical than just modern businesswoman, lol) and I stumbled upon Meduza’s conversion of TSM Alchemist outfit and really liked this idea. Also, it kinda works since matchmaker she also sells potions.
I even made a “lore entry”/backstory for her, in case you like this kind of stuff:
The Alchemist
Once powerful and energetic member of The Mage Brotherhood, after having a major disagreement with her colleagues, she was forced to leave for good. Banished and on her own, she found source of income in giving her magical services to common folk. However, after living hundreds of years, magical community started to fade away and people stopped believing in the effectivity of magic. Her services become redundant and she started to struggle to make ends meet.
Immortality became more of a curse than a blessing. Exhausted and broke, she started to perform cheap tricks rather than real magic to her customers. Now she mainly gives matchmaking services, through she still sells some of her potions. Sometimes, her old personality still shows up. From time to time, you can see her sneaking into somebody's backyard and leaving a small gift...
(Long post - more under the cut.)
I also take a step further and edited MtT’s/Shasta’s/ Chris Hatch’s name mod to rename her to The Alchemist (or Alchemist Matchmaker in some cases) where I could. Still, in “Call... >Services” menu, she’s still named as in the original. I tried to find its string in the game files to edit it, but I couldn’t.
Dodałam też polskie tłumaczenie do moda MtT. Zastąpiłam “C-gańską swatkę” na Alchemiczkę, Alchemiczkę-Swatkę lub Wróżbikę (ostatnie tylko w kartach kariery, bo “Alchemiczka” nie pasowała do kontekstu).
I also added one resorce to the mod for Love Potion thingie and edited the text.
It’s my 1st attempt to make/edit actual game mods, so please let me know if something is wrong!
Ok, so now the DFR info:
fhairg-psy default replacement: dfr file mine | mesh: Stealthic Envy (9k poly, @eir-sims-uploads‘s conversion) | yf-ef | unlocked in CAS | enabled for townies*
effaceg-psy (costume make-up) default replacement: texture made of @digisims2‘s XOD Eyebag Rcs and @mouseyblue’s Superlashes (short brown). Should look fine on any skin color.
NOTE: I actually kept original naming of the DFR files. I did that so people downloading my defaults can easily navigate those files in case of potential conflicts. Sorry about that. If you’re not comfortable with that, you can rename the files as you like.
I have a patience of a toddler, so I decided to fix my issue with ugly FT video games rack myself...
Flat, black & white replacements of racks & bonus replacements of games & magazines covers. BG video games are replaced with Assassins Creed, Terraria, Shadow of the Colossus & Witcher 3 covers, FT version is replaced with Final Fantasy VI, Skyrim, Hollow Knight & Legend of Zelda covers. I used mswn’s mags recolors as a base for magazines DFR and made makeshift back-covers for them.
Remember to pick only one rack colors per rack!
For interested, here you can download my self-made textures of the shelf. PSD & XCF formats included.
I’m close to finishing my male defaults rn, so it’s a good time to publish this! All eyebrows and male facial hair replaced. Original defaults by tarsona/carver (I don’t remember his current nick, sorry, he likes to change it every now and then).
I’m also happy to say that I managed to find my old preview layout.
While I'm declaring a war with EAxis hair retextures, because some of them don’t want to co-operate with my new curves and I have to edit them by hand, I gonna dump some other DFRs, why not.
Small section of EAxis make-up replaced. I say small, because, surprisingly, a big part of the original make-up is not so bad, and I only pick and choose some worse pieces to edit.
I won’t include lips replacements, bc I already use these.
Eyeshadow DFR: only 3 BG shadows replaced: yellow, green & purple colors (see above). I used one of Bruno’s eyeshadows for alpha and slapped on original make-up to make in less color-intensive. I also re-categorised these liner-eyeshadows using @dreadpirate‘s files. More info in “eyeliner” section.
Eyeliner DFR: all of them are replaced with eyelashes and eyeliners of my choice. Light eyeliner replaced with one version of Nabila’s Anva Guy Lashes (on alien sim), eyeliner replaced with Mousey’s Princess Eyelashes edited by me (waterline removed, it looked weird with darker skintones - on sim in hat), winged eyeliner from eyeshadows section is replaced with my mashup of Voeille’s Layerble Liners (on the black-haired sim) & the swirly face paint liner replaced with Nabila’s Cat Liner (no preview).
Blush DFR: I only replaced these weir full face make up thingies. I used a selection of Pooklet’s & TCS’ Pale Freckles.To see them all in BS you’ll need Dreadpirate’s enabler (which I included for convenience). Regular blushes are untouched. You can see some of freckles on two bottom sims.
Zits DFR: it’s actually just a slightly modified version of Imalia’s file. Original zits are by Lilith-sims. I just resized them from 1024px to 512px size, recolored them and added alien txtr file to package. Attention! I included two versions: one for minty alien and one for green alien, you have to pick only one!
So, recently for the first time I encountered the infamous pink flashing issue and I started to hunt down the biggest texture-memory eaters in my CC folder. It seems that these tree replacements are using 1024x2048 textures, and there’re about 40 of them in the replacement files, what is quite an overkill for 2000′s game... especially that me and many other simmers tend to spam these trees all over the neighbourhood.
I basically resized textures to 50% and 25% of original size. You can see what is the exact quality drop if you click on the preview picture above. Remember to pick only one version!
Important note: the original replacement uses slaved files, so I included only one file (the one having all textures). If you don’t have original replacement, you need to download it from here and extract files named “DEFAULT_lowedeus-CriquetteRow” and “DEFAULT_lowedeus-CriquetteForest”. If you already have these trees, just let my file overwrite the original one.
So, I hit 3000 followers (hello, there!) and I guess that it’s high time to say thank you somehow! This is not much, just replacement for easel basic easel paintings and frames (the ones you can pick in live mode), but I work on some other projects, so let’s call it part 1.
Credits to @moocha-muses, @littlelittlesimmies, @limonaire, @hamburgercakes, @budgie2budgie & @femmeonamissionsims for original posters!
